Doc: Let's give Sam Wyche a call

10:33 AM,
Jan. 14, 2014

Boomer Esiason, right, and Sam Wyche, left, talk things over.

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The story quoted him saying, "1-800-CALL-SAM," so I did. Sam Wyche would rather hear from an NFL owner than from me. He talked anyway.

Sort of. Wyche had a vocal cord severed during an operation more than a decade ago. His voice sounds like 5 in the morning, at 7 at night. Think Tom Waits. "I would go back in a heartbeat," Wyche says. He's talking about coaching in the NFL, something he hasn't done since he was the quarterbacks coach in Buffalo, in 2005.

"I'm out of the inner circle, I'm afraid," said Wyche, 69. "People think I'm a sick old man, waiting for the buffet line to open up. I'm fixin' to chop some ...